You are dead

"Since you insist", she stepped forward, and stood right beside the bed. "So, what was the last thing you remember before you lost your consciousness?" This was the 1st sentence said by any of them, that made sense to me.

"I… Was hit by a car and…then I... fell down the cliff." 

"So it was an accident. Cool, you're lucky for an easy death." Her words made no sense to me, again. 'Did I really die? Or is this some sort of a prank?'

"What are you talking about? This isn't funny anymore." I was losing my sanity.

"Girl, listen carefully. It may not sound reasonable, but what I'm going to say are facts. You are dead. You died after falling from that cliff. And this guy…" she pointed at the corner guy, "he's the reason you're here." 

"Wait, wait, wait, so you're telling me that I'm dead? Like, I died…?" I still couldn't believe it. How could I? Nobody in their right mind would. "Huh, where's the camera? You must be recording this right?" I got up and started searching.

"You won't believe it if I just tell you right?" Carla came to me, taking out a pocket knife and grabbed my right hand. Before I could react she slit my palm in the blink of an eye.

"Oww! What the heck? You psychopath." I shouted, holding my palm looking at the blood dripping out of the cut. "Are you for real?.... Ohh wait, I feel pain. That means I'm alive. Huh, can't believe you're going to such an extent for your filthy pranks." I scoffed.

"Just calm down and observe." She said in the same rude tone.

I looked back at the wound. And it made me angrier, but I tried to reserve it. I raised my head to say something but she signalled me to look again.

The wound appeared shorter this time, although it wasn't much different but it clearly looked shorter. I focused more, the corners were patching up, my skin was stretching near the cut and joining, closing up the wound. Within a few minutes, the wound was gone. I rubbed my palm to my thigh to clean the blood, and checked again. The cut was gone, the skin became clear as ever, as if the wound was never there. My eyes widened, mouth opened, but no word came out of it. I glanced at every individual for an answer, holding my wrist, the short girl Carla, the dark aura man Nathan, the corner boy, the round uncle with double chin, the tall lady with sharp pointed nose and the man with squared bushy eyebrows, but no one spoke. 

"Now, close your mouth and listen to me. Do not open it until I am finished." Carla pushed my chin up with her little fingers to close my mouth. "You are dead now. You died when you fell off the cliff. But, you were desperate to live. So, if a person desperately wants to live when he's at his death bed, something called 'soul call' is released out of his body. It is a sound or force which attracts the nearer vampires to save him. When you were dying, you were desperate to live, so your 'soul call' attracted Xavier, as he was nearer to you." 

She pointed at the corner guy.

I had no words after listening to her story, just like you. My mind was a mess. It's like I suddenly entered a fantasy novel. Nothing made sense to me. Ofcourse I've read thousands of fantasy novels and mangas but I always believed they never exist. 

"He is a vampire, and infact all of us are, including you." She continued. "You already got your proof, if you've anymore questions you can ask Xavier as he's the one responsible for your transformation, I'll be leaving now, it's time for my breakfast." She left the room right away, leaving me there in utter confusion.

"Just for your kind information, reviving had been restricted for a whole 198 years, but the rules were broken for YOU." The pointed nose lady came towards me, "If only they'd sent me." She glared at the corner guy, and stormed out pushing my left shoulder. 

"Your soul call was useless, you won't be alive for long." The bushybrow man patted my shoulder, giving me a sorrowful look.

He looked like a human version of Lee from Naruto.

"I… don't wanna be… questioned by the law… I'm quitting this… committee thing." The double chinned uncle mumbled to himself shivering, shaking his head while he left the room. 

"I'll report it to 'the law', you take care of her and explain everything. She needs time to accept things." Nathan stood up instructing Xavier, "I'll try my best to reduce your punishment to 50 years in sunlight at least." 

"Try making it 30 please, you know how much it hurts." Xavier grabbed Nathan's arm pleading.

" 'Burned to death' will probably be the best." 

"40, 40," He showed his 4 fingers.

"Um.. I'll try," he replied. "Get off me first." Xavier left him right away." Explain to her the rules and mentor her, she needs to learn a lot." He walked towards the door. 

"Aye aye captain." Xavier saluted him.

I stood there, expressionless. I needed time to understand everything.

Author:

I wrote this episode long ago, but it needed thousands of corrections and proofreading. I'll try to upload sooner next time.

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